Twilight Sparkle gets framed for a crime, and is hauled off to the Ponyville Town Jail to await trial. As she has never been convicted of a crime before, she's never had need for a defense attorney. There is somepony willing to help her, however. And who better to represent Princess Twilight Sparkle in court than The Great And Powerful Trixie, Attorney At Law? This will end poorly...
Edited/proofread/co-authored by HMXTaylorLee
EDIT: Featured from 5/18/19 to 5/19/19
EDIT 2: Now with a TvTropes page!
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Consider my interest piqued.
A lot of nonsense, but a very enjoyable read.
Reminds me of Turnabout Storm, but with loads more ham. I'm honestly surprised that Trixie has the credentials to even be a prosecutor in the first place.
I'm actually writing a fic where Twilight is charged with treason for what she did during the Season 4 finale (i.e. give magic to Tirek). How does that sound?
Oh hell fucking yes.
EDIT: I think I have an ulcer from laughing too hard. Bravo.
Oh, good grief...it was Brainiac!!!
On another note, I haven't seen this many "Objection!"s in a court room since this...
Apophis doesn't seem to be any better a lawyer than Trixie is, and clearly twice as crooked.
So...considering that Trixie indicates she's gone up against him in court before, and we know she hasn't won a case in months...that doesn't say much about Trixie's skills for this job, does it?
It amuses me that Rainbow Dash is the one who thinks to voice this concern.
Comedy gold. Welcome to my all-time faves list lmao.
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What did I just read?
To be honest I enjoyed the insanity of it and was expecting Discord much sooner. The whole thing did a great job making me as confused as Twilight was the entire time.
Also loved the Hitchhikers Guide references.
Wow, someone who is actually familiar with Discordianism. Color me impressed!
(Malaclypse gave it away)
There aren't many stories I give a like to... but then, there aren't many ridiculous enough to get me laughing out loud, either.
Twilight's facial expression is absolutely perfect. It's disdain, sadness, irritation, and disbelief that her counsel is so inept, as is the rest of the trial.
I love your additions since I last saw it. Trixie's cross examinations are so woeful.
Thanks for letting me work with you!
30 points from Gryffindor
This felt quite a lot like the trial from Alice in Wonderland
And bloodsucking and moneysucking cretins.
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Funny thing is, she doesn't.
Should be “Equestria (the moving party/prosecution/plaintiff) vs Princess Twilight Sparkle (the accused/defendant/non-moving party)”
Your Honor, I move for mistrial on the grounds of the prosecutor forging witnesses and creating testimony. I would also like for his conduct to be brought before the Equestrian Bar.
Objection, irrelevant.
Note, I am not a lawyer, but I do watch a few on YT, namely Leonard French and Legal Eagle.
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The legal system in Equestria clearly is not where it needs to be.
I will take the blame on the out of order plaintiff and defendant one though. That was my flub, sorry!
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I actually didn't know that. Thanks, it's fixed now.
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Yeah, the Equestrian Bar is going to have a field day with Apophis' malpractices.
Clearly, no better witness could ever be. Or no better bee could ever witness. I get those confused.
Hail Discordia! All hail Eris!
fnord
Actually...
Remember the sleepover?
- regards. MB
Thank you for making my cry.
With laughter!
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Hi there. My name is CaptainPinkiePie and I made this TvTropes page just for you:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/NoOrderInTheCourt
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AAAAAAAAAAAOh my gosh, thank you so much! I browse TvTropes on a regular basis (in fact, it, along with this fandom, was what inspired/enabled me to write in the first place), so seeing something that I wrote on TvTropes makes me feel like I've really made it as a writer. Though I suppose some of the credit should be given to HMXTaylorLee, since, after all, they did help me write the thing. If you need any help with confirmation of tropes or something like that, just let me know.
Also, I'm a bit surprised that Trixie came off as Crazy Awesome, considering I tried to write her as incompetent when it comes to lawyering. But it's a pleasant surprise, and it definitely makes sense.
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My pleasure. Although it was your friend that introduced me to this story and convinced me it was Troperrific enough to get its own page. And boy howdy, it did not disappoint! And it was hilarious too!
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I'm guessing you mean Leondude. If so, I will have to thank him at some point. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
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Yes, it is and your welcome.
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Probably your way of atoning for your days as an unabashed self-promoter that got banned from TvTropes.
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That's one reason. Another reason is I like helping out friends.
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Funny enough, I browse TvTropes on a regular basis as well and it helped me get into the fandom (as well as improve my writing style).
I object only to the fact that Death didn't speak in all caps LIKE THIS, and wasn't secretly ghost-written by Terry Pratchet.
Everything else was solid gold all the way through!